"this 8-pound monster captured the black-and-white image at a resolution of .01 megapixels, took 23 seconds to record onto a digital cassette tape and another 23 seconds to read off a playback unit onto a television"
Interesting, I may be wrong, but, in 1975, cassette was not digital. A different medium perhaps. My mind is more geared toward digital sound engineering in this respect with DAT and ADAT, which came about around 1990-ish. I still have both, which blew away 1/2 inch tape for 64 track recording.
I think the author may have used the word "digital" incorrectly. However, I could be wrong. I ma by no means a techhie. Nevertheless, it is a beastly looking thing. Would be "fun" to drag this behemoth around. Uh, no, not really.
@cluvlj It captured images on a solid-state CCD image sensor chips developed by Fairchild Semiconductor in 1973 and recorded them to cassette so it can be seen as the first digital camera to be built even though the concept of digitizing images came from Edward Stupp, Pieter Cath and Zsolt Szilagyi who patented an "All Solid State Radiation Imager” on 6 September 1968 and constructed a flat-screen target for receiving and storing an optical image on a matrix composed of an array of photodiodes connected to a capacitor to form an array of two terminal devices connected in rows and columns. Their US patent was granted on 10 November 1970, The first digital camera in its truest sense though was probably the Fuji DS-1P way back in 1988 which recorded to a 16mb internal memory card that used a battery to keep the images on there.but records are sketchy wether it was ever shipped outide Japan
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I think the author may have used the word "digital" incorrectly. However, I could be wrong. I ma by no means a techhie. Nevertheless, it is a beastly looking thing. Would be "fun" to drag this behemoth around. Uh, no, not really.